Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Pratt, for the supplementary. The senator is right: Labor's tax cuts will be the centrepiece of the May budget. All Australian taxpayers will get a tax cut, because we want Australians to keep more of what they earn. However, we also recognise that cost-of-living pressures are still being felt right around the country, and we will do what we can responsibly in the May budget to support and ease some of those cost-of-living pressures.

We will of course look at how we target any extra help and whether it is responsible and affordable across the budget. We've already invested in making electricity bills cheaper, with the Energy Bill Relief Fund; making medicines cheaper; making it cheaper and easier to see a doctor; making child care cheaper; expanding parental leave; building more social and affordable homes; fee-free TAFE; and wages rising at the fastest rate in a decade, including, importantly, for minimum-wage workers.